250+ .NET Interview FAQ's for Developers
A comprehensive list of ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET and .NET Framework questions for beginners and experienced people. Also a good read for people who want... more »
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Get A List Of Installed Applications Using LINQ And C#
To get a list of installed applications we need to look into registry. Microsoft.Win32 namespace contains objects which can be used to work with... more »
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ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 released
Keeping on with the 6 weeks release plan, the ASP.NET MVC team quietly release P5 of ASP.NET MVC on Codeplex. Some changes happened...
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Dear Asp.Net Developers: Stop Making Our Technology Look Bad
I run Firefox pretty much all the time. I like the plug ins and other features it has but there are times when I am forced, yes forced to open... more »
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List and Object-oriented Design Principles
When it comes to designing software, general principles of object-oriented design as well as basic and fundamental principles such as low coupling and... more »
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Flash and Silverlight: 3D Image Rotation
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This is not a very impressive effect since there are dozen of free source codes for making the image rotation. However, it’s good to have a brief... more »
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Building a generic IoC wrapper.
IoC containers are great at reducing complex dependencies in an application and the Dependency Injection design pattern has existed for quite some... more »
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Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Training and Certs for Free!
I was trolling around the Visual Studio 2008 learning site and found all kinds of goodies. Thought I'd share for anyone who has not been to the site... more »
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Ten commandments for developers
In order that applications and operating system shall not drive users insane thou shall:
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Flash and Silverlight: 3D Text Space
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This is one of the most stunning effect I experienced many years ago. The code is very simple, but yet astonishing. Both of the applications are made... more »
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Neal Ford On Programming Languages and Platforms
"Neal Ford talks about the tendency of having multiple languages running on one of the two major platforms existing today: Java and .NET. He also... more »
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ASP.NET Myths Busted
Having read a great variety of forum and blog posts, I met a lot of misconceptions about ASP.NET that definitely made people to turn away from... more »
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White paper on IronRuby published
Manning published my white paper — or green paper as they call it — on IronRuby. You can find it here...
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Curved ScrollBars using WPF 3D
My blog entry Non-Affine Transforms in 2D? posted a year ago is about using WPF 3D to mimic two-dimensional non-affine transforms, which are not... more »
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QuickSort for Fun!
This is a QuickSort for fun in C# 3 for a list with repeated items.
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Microsoft .NET 3.5 SP1 Released: More Controls, Streamlined Setup, Improved Start-up
The .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) delivers more controls, a streamlined setup, improved start-up performance, and powerful new graphics... more »
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5 Software Build Patterns
Do you want to help develop build patterns and identify? We have patterns-a-plenty for writing code. How about patterns for building it?
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Why XAML is Powerful
XAML, Microsoft's eXtensible Application Markup Language, was released with the .NET 3.0 framework and works with the new technologies available in... more »
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You've caught an exception. Now what?
An effective strategy for handling exceptions is to catch them at the boundary of a coarsely-grained "unit of work". Once you've caught an exception,... more »
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Getting and Setting Environment variables in C#
Environment variables are strings that save information about the entire environment in your system. These string values are dynamic and they can... more »
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Why I Love Java Way More Than .NET
A little insight on the craziness I endured just so I could add a reference to an in-house library in my .NET solution.
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Scraping, or Programatically Accessing, a Secure Webpage
There are many secure websites out there that provide useful information but do not have a public API to access it's data. A prime example of this is... more »
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Call Server Side code from Client Side using ASP.NET AJAX
To call server side functions from client side (javascript), on way is to use AJAX, and the easiest way out, is to use the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions. In... more »
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Getting Starting with StructureMap -- Simple Setup Scenarios (v2.5)
A short screencast on getting starting with StructureMap -- Simple Setup Scenarios (v2.5)
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Lean Software Development
While working in London for TrafficBroker I had the opportunity to try out Fred George's Lean process. To date, it's absolutely my favorite way to... more »
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